Online Poker Easy Target for Cheaters

Filed in archive Poker on December 16, 2009

The FBI have confirmed it; online poker can be subject to cheating. All the ways that have been mentioned in correspondence between FBI officials and an Alabaman House member have been called illegal.

Anyone who plays online poker will have their concerns. With automated computer systems being in use to make sure the richest sites continue to make consistent profits, it’s no surprise that individuals sitting at a computer like you and me can do the same.

“Technology exists...it would only take two or three players working in unison to defeat the other players who are not part of the team”, we have been told. Regulating the industry has been called a “Wild West Affair”, with “the only way to put any controls on internet gambling” being to “legalise it and regulate it”. Chairman of California-based youbet.com Michael Brodsky, has said that any ban on internet gambling would be a “threat to liberty”, also saying, “it is unwise for the government to tell people how they can spend their money”.